Five new African languages – including Hausa – have just been launched on Google Translate! This has just been announced on Google Africa Blog. Of course one must not expect too much from an automatic translation tool. Especially translating sentences from or to Hausa is difficult, since there are many small words with multiple meanings.
I did a small test today. Translating simple greetings seemed to work: I tried “Ina kwana?” and the correct translation was given “Good morning”. But then the next sentence “Ina gajiya?” was translated as “Tired I?” and “Ina labari?” as “Article I?”
Try it out for yourself here: http://translate.google.com/#ha/en/ and share your experiences with translating Hausa using Google Translate.
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I created online English to hausa dictionary eight month ago, and now i am planning to publish online Hausa to English dictionary but the only problem is i don’t have list of entire hausa words. Please sir is there anyway to download hausa wordlist in txt format?
Nice work! For a Hausa word list, you could start from Bargery’s monumental Hausa-English Dictionary which you find online at http://maguzawa.dyndns.ws or else from “K’ofar Hausa, a Hausa online dictionary run by Dr. Franz Stoiber at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna: https://hausaonline.wordpress.com/2006/06/27/another-online-dictionary-kofar-hausa/
I will like to learn alot’s through these your page.
Many thanks. That Bargery monumental Hausa to english Dictionary is exactly what i am looking for. Because for example, if i search for ‘a’ it will show me the list of all hausa word begining with ‘a’. Thanks again
Nice initiative, keep it up
Gaskiya inajin dadin wannan page din allah yasaka da alkhairi
I appreciate but aren’t you going to make a translation from Hausa to English